Warming to the Vice President of Conference

I'm beginning to warm to Richard Vauntrey the new Vice President of the Methodist Conference. He certainly seems to be putting some energy into his posts on the President's and Vice President's blog.

He highlighted this fascinating and sadly now unusual Methodist sensitivity to the issue of gambling:

At lunch time I went to the MHA lunch at Molineux, the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and had another photo shoot, this time with a Wolves scarf and an embarrassing woolly hat. The original idea had been to pose wearing a Wolves shirt but once we realised that it was sponsored by “sporting-bet” we decided this wasn’t a wise move for the President or Vice President of the Methodist Conference to do.

At present our reputation and policy on gambling has been outsourced to the Gambling Commission who give the impression that we have official representation among the Commissioners. Time somebody showed a little sensitivity there with a quiet word about the wording.

I shall be following Richard's posts with interest.